Starting and Running a User Group - Best Practices

This topic is a stub (work in progress). It's planned as an index to a "Book of Best Practices" on running user groups. Please feel free to add a "Chapter" to the Index, pointing to a page or set of pages...

 

1. Why start a User Group?
2. Why do people join a User Group?
3. Finding members and resources.
4. Best practices for cultivating your community.
5. Encourage community participation.
6. Recruiting new volunteers for your user group.
7. Finding new speakers for user group meetings.
8. Microsoft resources: Microsoft Technical Communities.
9. How to Request Funding through User Group Support Services
10. etc...